online retailers

Just before Christmas, Amazon infuriated booksellers with an app that allowed customers to check out prices in brick-and-mortar stores and then get a discount if they bought from Amazon instead.

Now publishers and booksellers are looking for new ways to compete with the Goliath of online retailers.

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Analysts are predicting a fairly good year for retailers over the holiday season. Those sales are expected to increase 3 percent overall and go up 15 percent for online retailers.

Plus, this is the first year tablets like the iPad may make an impact on the retail landscape.

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Under a new law signed by Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown, online retailers like Amazon are supposed to start collecting sales taxes, even when they're based outside the state.

Amazon says the new law is unconstitutional, and it won't collect the tax. One way the company is trying to avoid it, is by severing ties with about 10,000 small businesses and individual blogs based in the state which link to Amazon.com through their websites.

A quick rundown of the day's headlines, including a new cybersecurity chief at the White House, a legal loss for Microsoft, and a win for online retailers.